Yun Shang looked at Li Fuhua's appearance and laughed. It's just a joke, who wouldn't? Thinking in her mind, she frowned: "I also feel that these testimonies are somewhat untrustworthy, but,
Since someone has provided these testimonies to me, if I don't do an investigation, I'm afraid it will be true. Can Eunuch Li be sure that Eunuch Li has not committed any of these crimes?"
Li Fuhua didn't know what Yun Shang wanted. He only knew that these crimes could not be recognized no matter what, so he nodded in panic: "Please let me make the decision for you."
Yun Shang nodded: "If Eunuch Li is really innocent, I will definitely do it to Eunuch Li. In addition to these charges, there are some other things, such as the first charge, saying that Li
The father-in-law took bribes privately and provided the forbidden silver powder to the concubines in the palace. The person who provided the testimony also informed Eunuch Li where he hid the stolen silver and the five stone powder. Another example is the second count, which states that Eunuch Li and the palace
It is extremely sinful for concubines to give and receive privately, and that person also informed me of the concubines who had an affair with Eunuch Li..."
Yun Shang observed Li Fuhua's expression as he spoke, but saw him lowering his head and looking around constantly.
Yun Shang's voice gradually rose a little higher, with a hint of coldness: "Since Eunuch Li firmly believes that he has not done anything, it is simple. I will send someone to check the evidence in these confessions. Is it true?"
Isn’t it very clear whether it’s true or false?”
After Yun Shang finished speaking, he raised his voice and said, "Here comes someone."
A guard quickly responded, and Yun Shang handed all the testimonies in his hand to the guard beside him: "Check."
The guard quickly took it and led the person out of the prison in a hurry. Li Fuhua was kneeling on the spot. Although it was the middle of winter, there were thin beads of sweat seeping out on his forehead, but he did not dare to raise his head to wipe it away.
, had no choice but to let the sweat drop from his forehead and drip onto the ground. Yun Shang pretended not to see it, only raised his eyes and said to Qinghao: "Go and give me a cup of tea."
Qinghao quickly agreed and walked up the steps.
Yun Shang raised her eyes and talked to Li Fuhua casually: "How many years have Eunuch Li been in the palace?"
Li Fuhua hurriedly responded in a low voice: "Back to the Queen, the slave has been in the palace for more than forty years."
"More than forty years?" Yun Shang raised her eyebrows and smiled and said: "That's really an old man in the palace. I'm new to the palace, so I'm a little unclear. I don't know that as a servant in the palace, the punishment is the most severe.
Yes, what is the crime?"
When Li Fuhua heard this, his expression became a little stiffer, but he did not dare to be negligent and quickly responded: "It's private with the concubines in the harem."
"Oh?" Yun Shang heard this, her eyes paused on Li Fuhua, and then she looked at Li Fuhua with some doubts and said: "It seems that this was one of the charges against Eunuch Li just now, but I don't know who it is.
To hate Eunuch Li so much and to frame Eunuch Li with such a crime is really... not very kind."
Seeing that Li Fuhua didn't speak, Yun Shang sighed with regret and said: "I am new to the palace and I am not familiar with the affairs in the palace. I have not paid much attention to them. A few days ago, because His Majesty ordered the palace to be held on New Year's Eve,
During the banquet, I am still thinking of choosing someone from Eunuch Li and Eunuch Qi to assist me in managing the harem."
After Yun Shang finished speaking, he sighed again as if regretting and fell silent.
Li Fuhua lowered his head and said nothing, but Qi Ruihai, who had been silent, suddenly stood up and saluted: "I would like to thank the Empress for your appreciation, but I am still somewhat interested in solving the case. Other affairs in the harem are not
It’s really not familiar at all.”
Yun Shang raised his eyebrows. Does this mean he refused? Yun Shang glanced at Qi Ruihai, but just smiled and said nothing.
Not long after, Qian Zui hurriedly ran down the steps and said, "Your Majesty, your Majesty has returned to Weiyang Palace and is looking for your Majesty."
"So early?" Yun Shang was a little surprised. After thinking for a while, he said: "Since Your Majesty has returned to the palace, I will go back to Weiyang Palace first."
Yun Shang glanced at Li Fuhua, pondered for a moment, then smiled and said: "Then let's have another trial tomorrow. We are not in a hurry at this moment. Let's take Eunuch Li back first. I will have to trouble Eunuch Li.
After staying here for one more night, I just took a look and found that there was not even a bed of better cotton wool in Eunuch Li’s cell. It’s such a winter. I will prepare a bed of cotton wool and send it to Eunuch Li’s cell later.
Go in."
After Yun Shang finished his instructions, he stood up and said to the guards standing beside him: "When the guards come back later, just ask them to go directly to Weiyang Palace to find me."
The guard quickly responded, and Yun Shang turned around and walked slowly up the steps. After leaving the inner chamber, he got on the step and headed towards Weiyang Palace.
From the west side of the inner palace, to the Weiyang Palace, one has to pass through almost half of the harem. Yun Shang looked around and then asked Qian Zui in a low voice: "Your Majesty is really back?"
Qian Zui smiled and said: "Maybe after I came back, I couldn't see the empress, so I went back to Tai Chi Hall first."
When Yun Shang heard this, she couldn't help laughing and said: "You are a liar."
When Qian Zui heard the words, he smiled a little more freely and said quickly: "What the Queen said is wrong. Doesn't the Queen feel that the slave came in at the right time?"
Yun Shang laughed out loud after hearing Qian Zui's explanation: "Yes, it's just the right time."
Those charges were not actually made by the palace officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Not many of the testimonies brought by the guards could be used, and the confessions made by those palace officials were only some very minor charges. On the way there, Yun Shang confessed
Qinghao, how should he read it when she hands those pieces of paper to him later.
After he finished reading, Yun Shang asked the guards to check, but they were just trying to be mysterious.
It doesn't matter at all whether Li Fuhua has really committed those crimes. If they are true, they are false accusations. Li Fuhua will definitely be afraid. If they are false, Li Fuhua will just think that someone wants to kill him.
He must have prepared sufficient perjury.
Yun Shang couldn't create any real evidence in such a short period of time. That's why she praised Qian Zui for coming at the right time. Even if Qian Zui didn't come, she would find a way to escape.
Previously, Li Fuhua thought that the cup incident was at best a charge of neglect of duty and inadequate supervision, so he would not feel panic. But now that all the charges are enough to send him to the guillotine, Li Fuhua is afraid
His heart was full of fear, and he was convinced that someone was going to kill him. In this way, he would try his best to do something to ensure his life during the night that Yun Shang stayed.
As long as Li Fuhua takes action, Yun Shang's purpose of this trip will be achieved.
After getting off the steps, Yun Shang entered Weiyang Palace. While still talking to Qian Zui, he saw Liu Wen'an standing at the door of the main palace. Yun Shang paused for a moment, but turned his head to look at Qian Zui and said, "That's right.
You got it wrong."
Qian Zui seemed a little surprised and started laughing too.
Before Yun Shang could reach the door of the main hall, she heard Liu Wen'an's voice: "Where has your Majesty gone? Your Majesty can't see you when you come back. You just sent someone to look for her."
Hearing this, Yun Shang hurriedly said: "I just went to the Taiji Palace, and His Majesty was not in the palace. I heard that the chamberlain said that he went to the Taihe Palace, so I thought it would take some time for Your Majesty to return to the palace, so I went out for a walk."
With that said, he walked into the main hall, walked straight towards the inner hall, opened the purple bead curtain at the door of the inner hall, and walked in.
Luo Qingyan was sitting behind the table in the inner hall, seeming to be reading a book. Qinyi and Peilan stood aside, and except for the sound of Luo Qingyan turning the pages of the book, there was silence in the room.
Yun Shang walked in quickly and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is back?"
Luo Qingyan then raised his head, smiled and said, "Where have you been? It's a bit cold outside, why don't you wear more clothes if you want to go out?"
When Yun Shang heard this, she couldn't help laughing. She took off her cloak and handed it to Qian Zui. Then she walked up to Luo Qingyan with a smile and said, "I feel that the clothes I wear are really...
There are so many that I can hardly move. Your Majesty also thinks that I don’t wear enough clothes. Your Majesty, look at it. In addition to the cloak made of tiger skin and fox fur, I also wear a middle coat underneath.
They are all thick cotton-padded clothes, which are really too thick.”
Luo Qingyan reached out and touched Yun Shang's hand, her brows relaxed, she looked at Yun Shang and said with a smile, "Well, my hand is not cold, and it does look much rounder than before."
Hearing this, Yun Shang glared at Luo Qingyan: "Your Majesty makes fun of me again, and I will never wear so many clothes again."
"Okay, I won't make fun of you, just wear it like this this winter. I heard that you have been to Tai Chi Hall before, but what's the matter?" Luo Qingyan simply moved away a little, leaving half a chair open, and pulled
Yun Shang sat down next to him.
Yun Shang quickly smiled and said: "I just thought it was too cold in the Tai Chi Hall, so I asked someone to make ginger soup and send it to you."
After saying that, Yun Shang raised her head again and said to Qian Zui: "Go and get the ginger soup, it was still hot just now."
Qian Zui responded, Yun Shang picked up the writing brush on the table, took out a piece of paper, wrote some words on the paper, and handed it to Luo Qingyan, who took it and read it carefully.
, then silently crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the brazier. Then he took Yun Shang's hand and wrote three words on it.
Yun Shang nodded and retracted his hand.
His eyes suddenly glanced at the vase with plum blossoms aside, and he remembered what he had discovered inadvertently before. He quickly raised his head and said to Qin Yi: "Take out all the plum blossoms in the vase."
Qin Yi and Luo Qingyan were both a little strange. They turned their heads to look at Yun Shang. Yun Shang said quickly: "I accidentally discovered earlier that the area where the plum blossoms in the vase were soaked in water seemed to be stained black by ink. It's just that
